[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 29, Number 24

Thu Jul 18 19:14:34 PDT 2019

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 29, Number 24
Jul.18,2019

Announcement submission website: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/messenger_form/

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Table of Contents

1. Important GEM Announcements

2. Call for Papers on VarSITI Special Issue in JASTP (Deadline: Nov. 30, 2019) 

3. Postdoctoral Positions in Magnetospheric Physics at Rice University

4. Postdoctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics at University of Colorado/LASP

5. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM020: Magnetic reconnection – connecting ideas from observations, experiments and models

6. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM022:  Magnetosphere - Plasmasphere - Ionosphere Coupling: Transport of Ionospheric Ions to the Magnetosphere and their Consequences

7. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM041: Wave and Plasma Structures in the Subauroral Geospace

8. AGU Fall Meeting Session SA008: Energetic Precipitation Effects in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere

9. AGU Fall Meeting Session IN038: Near Real-Time/Low Latency Data for Earth Science and Space Weather Applications

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1. Important GEM Announcements
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From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu)

Thanks to everyone for making this year’s GEM Summer Workshop a meeting to remember!  Chia-Lin Huang, Chris Mouikis, and Umbe Cantu did a fantastic job organizing the workshop.  A few brief, but important, announcements:

(1) Steering Committee changes:
At the end of this year’s GEM meeting, rotating off the SC were At-Large members Dan Welling, Christine Gabrielse, student rep Ryan Dewey, Liaison to Canada Robert Rankin, Communications Coordinator Peter Chi, and our illustrious Chair Jacob Bortnik.  Thanks to all of them for their service to the community!  We are also pleased to announce the new additions - At-Large members Yihua Zheng and Adam Kellerman, student rep Agnit Mukhopadhyay, Liaison to Canada John Manuel, I’ve become Chair, and I am pleased to announce the new Vice-Chair (Chair-Elect) is Vania Jordanova, who will become GEM Chair in two years.  Please join me in welcoming the new SC members!

(2) Seeking an At-Large member of the Steering Committee
The appointment of Vania as Vice-Chair means that there is one new opening for an At-Large member on the SC.  To enhance transparency, the SC voted to (re-)open a community-wide search to fill this position.  The duties of the various SC positions are summarized in the GEM “best practices” document, which can be found at 
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM_BestPractices_22Sep2017.pdf.
Please send a succinct one-page CV and a separate brief statement of interest (no more than half a page) describing your interest in the position, any relevant experience, and your approach to serving the GEM community and maintaining an interactive and workshop-style meeting.  Applications and nominations will be accepted until Friday, August 2.  To submit an application, please send the requested documents to Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak AT mail.wvu.edu) and Vania Jordanova (vania AT lanl.gov). Send the name and contact information of nominations to the same addresses. If you previously applied for a position before the summer workshop, please reapply if you are still interested.  

(3) GEM SC Minutes Available Online
As with the above entry, enhancing transparency includes the rapid publication of SC minutes.  We have created a new location on the GEM Wiki for SC minutes at the following link:
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/Other_Documents_and_Reports.
The minutes from the 2018 Mini-GEM and the just completed 2019 Summer Workshop have been posted.

As always, please contact me if you have questions or suggestions!

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2. Call for Papers on VarSITI Special Issue in JASTP (Deadline: Nov. 30, 2019) 
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From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

On behalf of guest editors, I would like to invite you to submit papers to the Special Issue of Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI) Completion Symposium 2019 in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP).  The symposium was held on June 10-14, 2019 at Sofia, Bulgaria. Because this special issue is one of the summarizing activities of the 5-year VarSITI program (2014-2018), we also welcome submission of papers from those who made presentation at the SCOSTEP's STP-14 conference (July 9-13, 2018, Toronto, Canada), and also from scientists who did not join these two symposiums.

The VarSITI program (http://www.varsiti.org/) was the 5-year international program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee On Solar-TErrestrial Physics) in 2014-2018.  VarSITI focused on the recent and expected future solar activity and its consequences for the Earth, for various time scales from the order of thousands years to milliseconds, and for various locations and their connections from the solar interior to the Earth’s atmosphere.  Four Scientific Projects were carried out under the VarSITI program: (1) Solar Evolution and Extrema (SEE), (2) International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST/MiniMax24), (3) Specification and Prediction of the Coupled Inner-Magnetospheric Environment (SPeCIMEN), and (4) Role Of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere / thermosphere / ionosphere In Climate (ROSMIC).  These four projects were carried out in collaboration with relevant satellite and ground-based missions as well as modeling efforts to facilitate the implementation of these projects.  The special issue welcomes new and interdisciplinary scientific results related to this 5-year VarSITI program.  

Submission page: https://www.evise.com/profile/#/ATP/login
	(Log in with EVISE account, choose Start New Submission. During the 
	submission process, author will be asked to choose an Article Type. 
	Choose VSI: VarSITI2019 and STP-14). 
Deadline of submission for this special issue: November 30, 2019 

With best regards, 
Kazuo Shiokawa

Guest Editors of the special issue 
*Kazuo Shiokawa (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan)
*Rositsa Miteva (Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
*Sergio Dasso (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Astronomiay Fisica del Espacio (IAFE), Buenos Aires, Argentina) 
*Shunrong Zhang (MIT Haystack Observatory, USA)
*Duggirala Pallamraju (Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India)

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3. Postdoctoral Positions in Magnetospheric Physics at Rice University
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From: Frank Toffoletto and Stanislav Sazykin (toffo at rice.edu)

The magnetospheric modeling group at Rice University has one or two postdoctoral openings to work on fundamental physics of the inner magnetosphere, plasma sheet, ring current and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. One position would be in model development. For this position, experience in magnetospheric model development, parallel programming and high-performance computing is highly desirable. The second position involves working with both simulations and data. For this position, prior experience in using or improving numerical codes is highly desirable along with experience analyzing spacecraft and ground based-data. Candidates who have experience in both areas are also encouraged to apply. A Ph.D. in a space physics or related discipline is required for both positions. Initial appointment will be for one year, with renewal likely for a second year, contingent on performance and availability of research funds.

Candidates should supply a curriculum vitae, a brief statement of research interests, and names of three references online at: https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/17876. Information on the group’s research activities can be found at http://physics.rice.edu/Space.aspx.  Rice University is an affirmative-action/equal-opportunity employer.

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4. Postdoctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics at University of Colorado/LASP
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From: David Malaspina (David.Malaspina at colorado.edu)

https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Space-Plasma-Physics-Postdoctoral-Researcher/19517?

The Space Plasma Group at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado, Boulder (CU), is seeking candidates for a RS-I (post-doctoral) position.   

Research duties include analysis of Parker Solar Probe data to study near-Sun solar wind plasma phenomena and analysis of magnetospheric mission data (MMS, Van Allen Probes) to study plasma wave phenomena near Earth. These projects focus on plasma wave-particle interactions and kinetic-scale plasma physics.    

Application Materials Required: Cover Letter, Resume/CV.  The cover letter should outline the experience that the applicant has with respect to wave-particle interaction physics, as well as the applicant's broader research goals.  

Preference will be given to candidates who can begin near or before January 2020, but other situations will be considered on a case by case basis. 

The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)  at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) began in 1948, a decade before NASA.  We are the world’s only research institute to have sent instruments to all eight planets and Pluto. LASP is associated with several departments at the University of Colorado including APS, Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Geology, and Atmospheric Science. LASP is a research laboratory that is fully equipped for space-flight instrumentation with a qualified engineering staff, clean rooms, vacuum chambers, and testing facilities. 

The CU/LASP Space Plasma Group conducts a diverse research program encompassing instrumentation, data analysis, simulation, and theoretical studies of space plasma physics in a variety of environments, including planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres as well as the solar wind.  

For more information, please contact: David.Malaspina at lasp.colorado.edu

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5. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM020: Magnetic reconnection – connecting ideas from observations, experiments and models
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From: Yi-Hsin Liu (Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu)

Dear Colleague,

We’d like to draw your attention to our upcoming AGU session on magnetic reconnection!

SM020 - Magnetic reconnection – connecting ideas from observations, experiments and models.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/74966

This session will be a venue to discuss recent advancements in our understanding of magnetic reconnection based on observations, laboratory experiments, and models. We are looking forward to seeing your abstracts.

Sincerely,
Yi-Hsin Liu @Dartmouth
Kevin Genestreti @UNH
Jongsoo Yoo @PPPL
Michael Hesse @U. Bergen

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6. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM022:  Magnetosphere - Plasmasphere - Ionosphere Coupling: Transport of Ionospheric Ions to the Magnetosphere and their Consequences
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From: Sergio Toledo-Redondo, Sarah Vines, Elena Kronberg, Stephen Fuselier (sarah.vines at jhuapl.edu)

Dear Colleagues, 

We would like to encourage you to submit an abstract to our session entitled Magnetosphere - Plasmasphere - Ionosphere Coupling: Transport of Ionospheric Ions to the Magnetosphere and their Consequences. Please find more details below.

Session Link: 
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/72753

Session Description: 
The Earth’s ionosphere is composed of dense and cold plasma that includes heavy ions. This plasma can directly escape to the magnetosphere following the Earth's magnetic field lines in the polar regions, and forms the plasmasphere in the low- and mid-latitude regions. The ionosphere is therefore an important source that provides significant amounts of plasma to the magnetosphere and has a profound impact on the global magnetosphere dynamics. Recent observations from numerous missions including Cluster, Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, and MMS and simulations identify the origin, transport, and loss of plasma originating in the ionosphere and transported into the magnetosphere. These ionospheric ions modify the plasma properties, and have an impact on key plasma dynamics such as wave generation and transport, particle acceleration or magnetic reconnection. This session welcomes presentations on all aspects related to ionospheric plasma in the magnetosphere. Studies based on observations, theory and simulations are encouraged.

Conveners:
Sergio Toldedo-Redondo, Sarah Vines, Elena Kronberg, Stephen Fuselier

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7. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM041: Wave and Plasma Structures in the Subauroral Geospace
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From: Anatoly Streltsov (streltsa at erau.edu)

Dear Colleagues,
Please consider to submit an abstract about your current research to the SM041 session “Wave and Plasma Structures in the Subauroral Geospace” at the Fall 2019 AGU Meeting.

Sincerely yours,

Anatoly Streltsov and Evgeny Mishin

Session Description:
Observations from the ground and satellites suggest that the plasmapause plays a crucial role in the transport and conversion of mass, energy and momentum in the subauroral geospace. In particular, it converts the kinetic energy of earthbound plasma jets moving from the reconnection region in the magnetotail into a large-scale electric field driving subauroral flows known as SAID and SAPS. This process is inherently unstable and thus associated with various plasma instabilities generating broadband plasma turbulence, as well as small-scale magnetic field-aligned currents and ULF/FLF electromagnetic waves in the plasmasphere and conjugate ionosphere. The focus of this session are ground-based and satellite observations, theory and simulations of multiscale wave and plasma structures occurring near the plasmapause in the Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere. Presentations of observations, theory, and numerical results using/connecting/explaining observations from several ground and space platforms (e.g., data from DMSP, Cluster, THEMIS, MMS, and Van Allen Probe satellites) are particularly encouraged.

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8. AGU Fall Meeting Session SA008: Energetic Precipitation Effects in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere
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From: Dong Lin, Wenbin Wang, Chia-Lin Huang, and Harlan Spence (ldong7 at vt.edu)

We invite contributions to the following Fall AGU session devoted to energetic precipitation effects in the middle and upper atmosphere (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/82263).

Session description: Precipitating energetic particles have been shown to be able to change the mean state of the atmosphere. Energetic precipitation with different origins (magnetosphere plasma sheet, radiation belt, solar energetic protons, cosmic rays) can penetrate into different layers of the atmosphere and affect atmospheric chemistry and dynamics in different ways. For example, the changes of ionospheric conductivity in the upper atmosphere due to auroral precipitation directly affect the electrodynamic coupling between the magnetosphere and the ionosphere, and heating and forcing of the atmosphere at different altitudes. Relativistic precipitation produces nitrogen and hydrogen oxides in the middle atmosphere which have both local and global influences on ozone concentration and radiative heating/cooling. This session addresses issues related to the precipitation effects in the middle and upper atmosphere using observations and models. This topic couples the solar, magnetospheric, ionospheric, and atmospheric physics which will be of interest for both atmospheric and heliospheric communities.

Conveners: Dong Lin (ldong7 at vt.edu/ldong at ucar.edu), Wenbin Wang, Chia-Lin Huang, and Harlan Spence

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9. AGU Fall Meeting Session IN038: Near Real-Time/Low Latency Data for Earth Science and Space Weather Applications
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From: Gerald Bawden, Diane Davies, Rob Redmon, H. Michael Goodman (Rob.Redmon at noaa.gov)

We would like to draw your attention to the following Earth and Space Science Informatics session at the 2019 Fall AGU Meeting, 9-13 December 2019 in San Francisco CA.

Session Title: IN038 Near Real-Time/Low Latency Data for Earth Science and Space Weather Applications

Section: Earth and Space Science Informatics

Session Viewer Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/79577

Session Description: Near real time/low latency data and new big data techniques applied to satellite, airborne (including uninhabited aerial vehicles-UAV), and surface sensors are transforming existing end-user applications and spawning new ones. These applications demonstrate the utility of timely data and advanced analyses in diverse Earth and space science disciplines including weather prediction, river forecasting, natural and human-caused hazards, public health, agriculture, marine, early warning, and space weather applications. In addition to traditional and emerging computer analyses, the use of apps for smartphones and tablets presents an opportunity to improve and expand the timely usage of data products and services. This session seeks contributions that demonstrate the benefit of near real time/low latency scientific or social media data, discuss innovative real time analysis approaches including machine learning and big data strategies, decrease data delivery latency, or identify gaps in current capabilities.

We held this session last year (2018) and it was a popular session within the Earth and Space Science Informatics (IN) track and we anticipate it to be as popular this year.  The session is cross listed in Natural Hazards, Atmospheric Sciences, SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics, and Geodesy,

Index Terms:
1964    Real-time and responsive information delivery [INFORMATICS]
3360    Remote Sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4315    Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7924    Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]

Please note that the abstract deadline is Wednesday, 31 July 2019 (2359 EDT), so please plan accordingly and submit your abstract soon.

Sincerely,
Gerald Bawden, NASA Headquarters gerald.w.bawden at nasa.gov
Diane Davies, Trigg Davies Consulting, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center diane.k.davies at nasa.gov
Rob Redmon, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information rob.redmon at noaa.gov
H. Michael Goodman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center michael.goodman at nasa.gov

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